Hello there, I’m a new user from Argentina, I’d like to know how can I play my .ape files with Audacious, since it doesn’t prompt me with a proper search for the codecs, I’ve installed libmac files.
Thanx in advance!
My guess is not, best bet is to convert it to some other file like ogg.
But how can Amarok play .ape files (after a prompt for a proper search for the codecs)? Anyway, how can I convert .ape files to .flac from the command line?
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Hello there, I’m a new user from Argentina, I’d like to know how can I play my .ape files with Audacious, since it doesn’t prompt me with a proper search for the codecs, I’ve installed libmac files.
Thanx in advance!
You can do that!
To verify you have the right codecs installed just open Audacious and use drag and drop (.ape file into audacious’s playlist).
To have .ape files related to Audacious, just right click on an .ape file and choose ‘Property’ > General > File Type Options, click on ‘add’ and select Audacious, and/or any other player you wish to use, from the list.
Just to clarify, .ape files play fine on Audacious here.
You probably need to install the package “audacious-plugins-extra” (available in the Packman repo) to be able to play back .ape files.
I should also have explicitly, not only implisitly, have mentioned that the .ape files were not identified as audio files by any of the players I have installed; hence, the reference to how to relate the file-type to a specific app, Audacious in this case. The .ape files play just fine on my system (Audacious, Clementine …) but they did not trigger any application, e.g. Audacious, to automatically open them up with by default.
Cheers,
Olav
Well, on my system, ape files are associated with MPlayer and GNOME Totem (“Videos”):
http://wstaw.org/m/2015/02/11/ape-filetype.png
None of them are installed on a default KDE system though, so you might have to install them manually. (on GNOME, Totem/Videos is installed by default)
But you’re right that most other players don’t associate themselves with ape files (the filetypes which are supported have to be specified in the application’s .desktop file), although they can play them (often via the generic ffmpeg plugin as it’s the case with audacious).
Hi.
A bit strange but MPlayer was, and is, installed when I ran that test. I suppose the DE might constitute for the difference?
I have no recollection of ever having played any .ape files earlier, though, so I have no experience with it.
It shouldn’t.
MPlayer’s desktop file specifies that it supports .ape files:
# grep ape /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop
MimeType=application/mxf;application/x-netshow-channel;application/ogg;application/ram;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-shockwave-flash;application/smil;audio/ac3;audio/x-adpcm;audio/x-aiff;audio/AMR;audio/AMR-WB;audio/x-ape;audio/basic;audio/flac;audio/x-flac;audio/x-flac+ogg;audio/x-m4b;audio/x-matroska;audio/mp2;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;audio/ogg;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-voc;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;video/3gpp;video/3gpp2;video/dv;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-matroska;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mpeg;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/ogg;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/quicktime;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/x-theora+ogg;video/webm;
As this is a freedesktop standard, all (current) desktops should support this.
Maybe you would have to call “update-desktop-database” manually?
AFAICS the MPlayer package does not do this (which could be considered a bug), so it might not get registered correctly (unless you install some other package afterwards that calls this).
Your DE might depend on this “cache database of the MIME types handled by desktop files”.
From “man update-desktop-database”:
The cache database contains the list of MIME types that can be handled by desktop files, as well as, for each MIME type, a list of desktop files that can handle this MIME type. This cache database ease the work of applications that need to find an application that can open a docu- ment of a specific MIME type: those applications will not have to parse all the desktop files existing on the system, and can instead parse this cache database.
KDE has its own desktop file cache though, which gets recreated automatically when the files on disk change, or forcefully on login when new packages have been installed since it has been recreated the last time.
It shouldn’t.
MPlayer’s desktop file specifies that it supports .ape files:
Aha.
I had removed the gmplayer package; I had a quick look through smplayer and it seems to miss this mimehandler.